Proposal would ban new all-night businesses

Mayor seeks to change borough's noise ordinance in residential areas

11:00 PM,
Apr. 25, 2012

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Want to locate a new all-night business next door to a residential neighborhood? Not on Mayor Pasquale "Pat" Menna's watch.

Menna proposed at Wednesday night's council meeting to amend the borough's noise ordinance to prohibit a 24-hour or late-night new business from opening in a residential zone.

The measure would rein in the hours of operation of a new business by mandating an 11 p.m. closing time and 6 a.m. opening of any new business within 100 feet of a residential zone. Existing businesses and restaurants and bars would be grandfathered as would those in the downtown business ...